Full Description
This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhibitions and museums that display both national/imperial identity and the otherness that lurks beyond a country's borders. What is revealed is that the same tension operates in these private and public realms; namely, that between identification and self-projection, on the one hand, and alienation, otherness and objectification on the other. In uncovering this, the authors show that the self, the citizen/society and the other are realities that are constantly being asserted, defined and objectified. This takes place, they demonstrate, in a ceaseless dynamic of projection versus alienation, and intimacy versus distancing.
Contents
I. Introduction: Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces and the Dynamic of Historical Liminalities (Dominique Bauer, KU Leuven), II. Liminal Domesticities, 1. Panorama as Critical Restoration: Examining the Ephemeral Space of Viollet-le-Duc's Study at La Vedette (Aisling O'Carroll), 2. An Ephemeral Museum of Decorative and Industrial Arts: Charle Albert's Vlaams Huis (Daniela Prina), 3. Expanding Interiors: Architectural Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione (Heidi Brevik-Zender) (University of California, Riverside/ Fulbright Visiting Scholar Professor, University of Aberdeen), III. Bygone nations and empires under construction. The political imagination of liminality, 4. The Land that Never Was: Liminality of Existence and the Imaginary Spaces in the Archbishopric of Karlovci (Jelena Todorovic), 5. The Theatre of Affectionate Hearts: Izabella Czartoryska's Musée des Monuments Polonais in Pu?awy (1801-1831) (Michal Mencfel), 6. A Burning Mind, a Dream Space, a Fantastic Exhibition (Inessa Kouteinikova), IV. England and the British Empire. Civil society, civil service and the liminal position of transient spaces, 7. An Ephemeral Display within an Ephemeral Museum: The East India Company Contribution to the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 (Elizabeth Pergam), 8. Julia Margaret Cameron's Railway Station Exhibition: A Private Gallery in the Public Sphere (Jeff Rosen), 9. Paper Monument: The Paradoxical Space in the English Optical Toy Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, 1825 - 1843 (Shijia Yu), Index.
